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Bonds

ABCI Securities provide one-stop bond investment services to our clients. In just one investment account, you can easily buy and sell all kind of bonds in the market. For more details, please refer to your Account Executive (AE) or Client Service Department.

Bond Information

What is Bond?

Bond is a certificate of indebtedness. Buying a bond equals to lending money at a fixed interest rate to the corresponding issuer.
Typical Issuer include: Governments, Semi-governments institutions and corporations. Bond issuing is a means to gather fund, therefore the bond holders are lenders and issuers are borrowers. By buying the bond issue, the lender actually enters into an lending agreement with the borrower.
Bond is a fixed income instrument, it allows you to enjoy stable return in this volatile market.
A list of bond is qualified for CIES.

What kind of bonds can I choose?

You can buy treasury bond, government bond and corporate bond. If the bond is nominated in foreign currencies, we can help you with FX exchanges to purchase the bond.

How to redeem bond investment?

ABCI will help to collect bond principal and interest upon expiration.

What types of bonds are there in the market?

Corporate bonds	are issued by companies or their subsidiaries to finance their business activities.
Government bonds	are issued by the government. Government bonds are usually considered lower risk investments because of the relatively lower chance of default by a government.
Perpetual bonds	do not have a fixed maturity date but they pay a steady stream of interest forever.
Callable bonds	grant the issuer the right to repay the bond before it matures.
Puttable bonds	give you the right to sell the bond back to the issuer at a predetermined price.
Convertible bonds	give you the right to convert the bond into a specified number of unissued shares of the issuer or a related company.
Exchangeable bonds	allow you to exchange the bond for the shares of any organization which are already in issue and held by the issuer or a related company.

(Content from SFC investor education centre)